Apr 1, 2020

A Shift

Not everybody who was on the Trump band wagon is still four-square behind him.



It's a little weird to think Spring-like thoughts of green shoots and little rays of hope as we descend into the depths of a COVID-19 Winter.

Today's Brian

Brian Tyler Cohen

And Yamiche Alcindor deserves every accolade possible.


Today's Tweet


COVID-19 Update

So President Stoopid finally gets up there at the press briefing and admits he's had his head up his ass for 3 months, and that, golly gee willikers it looks like maybe 100,000 of us may die because of it.

And that's after Deb Birx and Tony Fauci told us the death toll could be as low as 100,000 if we do everything perfectly for the next month or so, but don't be too surprised if it pops up over 2 or 3 hundred thousand.

Cuz guess what - Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) still won't issue orders to tell people they need to do what President Stoopid's Task Force is telling us we have to do perfectly if we're going to have a chance to salvage something decent from this fucked up mess.

Growth Factors
Cases:
1.09 - World
1.15 - USA

Deaths:
1.11 - World
1.29 - USA



Case Fatality Rate (CFR) for The US right now is at 2.2%, which is lagging behind a World CFR of close to 5%. Which is another one of those things that seems weird because either they just don't know enough yet, or Cult45 is still trying to keep a lid on the bad news.

Or maybe that lag is why the briefing yesterday was so dark and ominous. When we look at the USA numbers on this thing, it doesn't seem all that bad, but there's a definite "We ain't seen nuthin' yet" vibe to it that's pretty fucking scary, so maybe they're just owning up to it now.

Wouldn't it be nice if 45* hadn't spent this whole time lying to us about everything.

Mar 31, 2020

COVID-19 Update

The US has about 5% of the world's population, and about 20% of the COVID-19 cases.

Seems like we do that with everything - energy consumption, pollution, war spending - all kinds of shit.

Growth Factors:

Cases:
1.15 - USA
1.09 - World

Deaths:
1.26 - USA
1.12 - World

 


And There It Is Again

Raising your core temperature improves your immune response in both bacterial and viral exposures.



Get your ass up. Move. Sweat.

And Now This

John Oliver

Taking a chance on COVID-19 in order to get back to work and "save the economy" doesn't trade one bad outcome for the other - it gets you both bad outcomes.

Saying It Out Loud

Brian Tyler Cohen

When everybody votes, Republicans lose.


Today's Tweet

No - I don't take responsibility at all

Mar 30, 2020

Today's Tweet


Yeehaw and away we go.